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Zagreb Airport aims for new airlines and routes

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Zagreb Airport General Manager up-beat on future prospects

Zagreb Airport's General Manager, Jacques Feron, says the airport must continue attracting new carriers in order to better position itself as a European hub, adding that a number of incentive schemes will continue in a bid to attract new routes. Speaking to "Airports Business", Mr Feron, who was named Zagreb Airport's General Manager in October last year, said, "An airport such as Zagreb cannot decide to become a hub on its own. It is airlines which make the airport a hub. At our concessionaire level, we shall accompany the airlines, and especially Croatia Airlines, in their strategies by being efficient and flexible". Zagreb has opted for a proactive approach in attracting new routes with a five year scheme to reduce airline start-up costs. Based on the individual merits of the proposed route growth, the airport may offer additional backing through marketing support.

Mr Feron, who was previously the CEO of Cambodian Airport and was engaged in international development activities as part of Aeroports de Paris, added, "Airports are crucial for the development of the economy - infrastructure and services must be at the highest international level. With a very impressive design, the new terminal building will definitely be a fantastic tool for the promotion of Zagreb. Out ambition is to make Zagreb Airport a reference point in terms of well-managed and developed infrastructure". Mr Feron noted that Zagreb Airport has already become a success story in the two years it has been managed as part of an international consortium. "This project [new terminal] is very challenging, but it is already a success in that the construction is ahead of schedule. We are confident that with this new tool, we will definitely be able to improve the quality of services provide to all of our business partners", he said.

The new terminal building is currently the largest construction site in the country. Now in its third year of construction, the roof and exterior are complete, and the testing and commissioning phase is about to begin. Mr Feron reports that work on the interior is also progressing well, with the construction of commercial areas to begin in the coming months. Once complete, the new terminal will be able to handle five million passengers, instead of the current two million. Further extensions envisaged during the thirty-year concession period will potentially see capacity increased to eight million. Zagreb Airport handled a record 509.387 passengers during the first quarter, an increase of 6.5% compared to the same period last year.

Anonymous 10:58, I'm sure you know the difference between simple present and simple past in English, so let's try. The correct sentence would be: "So the airport WAS loss making...", since we don't have financial reports for 2015.

Since TK was mentioned a couple of times, here is some news that indicates they will start investing in other markets:

Senegal state-owned television has said Turkish Airlines is the front-runner to take a stake in Air Senegal, a new national airline intended to replace the West African nation’s now defunct, heavily indebted carrier Senegal Airlines.

This does not mean they will go after OU (after all, it is LH's playground) but just felt like posting it.

Kafeterija has world class coffee. It was already available inside Air Serbia Lounge.

This being news shows dismal state of development at BEG. Management still exploits ASL's 2014 expansion to brag about BEG growth, when in fact aggregate 3-year (2014,2015,2016) growth of BEG will be slower than several other airports in the region like SKP.

Beautiful coast cities that croatia have are served by SEVEN airports of their own in : Rijeka, Pula, Losinj, Zadar, Split, Brac and and Dubrovnik, north to south. Seven above mentioned airports of the beautiful coast cities that croatia have, in numbers, serve 4 million passengers per year, while ZAG itself serves two and a half mil. ZAG is used by some 30 airlines companies on both regular and charter flights, while are the airports of the beutiful coast cities of croatia used by some 50 airlines companies, regular and charter. Only about 10 percent of passengers are "interacting"/transiting ZAG on their way to/from other beautiful coast cities that croatia have in winter, or maximally up to 25 percent in peak summer season. Therefore, your statement is totally wrong.

To anon 12:20PM I don't answear to clowns,To anon 2:25PM who said that BEG airport is succesful?And to anon 2:36PM you said it yourself:coast cities of croatia contributes 25% in ZAG airport.That's all!!

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